Bill Text: TX HB1662 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an acute psychiatric bed registry to list available beds for the psychiatric treatment of certain individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to Public Health [HB1662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1662-Introduced.html
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| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 1662 | |
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| relating to an acute psychiatric bed registry to list available | ||
| beds for the psychiatric treatment of certain individuals. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0997 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0997. ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY. (a) In this | ||
| section, "inpatient mental health facility" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 571.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The commission shall develop and administer an | ||
| Internet-based and searchable acute psychiatric bed registry to | ||
| collect, aggregate, and display information about beds at inpatient | ||
| mental health facilities located in a county with a population of | ||
| four million or more that are available for the inpatient | ||
| psychiatric treatment of individuals. | ||
| (c) For each inpatient mental health facility, the acute | ||
| psychiatric bed registry must list: | ||
| (1) the name and contact information of the facility; | ||
| (2) the number of available beds; | ||
| (3) the type of individual who may be admitted; | ||
| (4) the level of security provided; and | ||
| (5) any other information that may be necessary to | ||
| identify appropriate beds for the inpatient psychiatric treatment | ||
| of individuals. | ||
| (d) The commission shall make the acute psychiatric bed | ||
| registry available to law enforcement agencies, community service | ||
| boards, mental health facilities, public and private residential | ||
| crisis stabilization units, emergency care facilities, and | ||
| emergency care providers located in a county with a population of | ||
| four million or more. The commission may make the registry | ||
| available to any other person the commission considers appropriate. | ||
| (e) An inpatient mental health facility located in a county | ||
| with a population of four million or more shall submit to the | ||
| commission information for the acute psychiatric bed registry as | ||
| required by the commission and review the information and confirm | ||
| its accuracy to the commission at least once daily and whenever | ||
| there is a change in bed availability at the facility. | ||
| (f) An inpatient mental health facility located in a county | ||
| with a population of four million or more shall designate an | ||
| employee or employees as necessary to: | ||
| (1) submit to the commission the information required | ||
| under Subsection (e) and review the information as required by that | ||
| subsection; and | ||
| (2) serve as a contact for questions about the | ||
| information submitted. | ||
| (g) The commission may contract with any person the | ||
| commission considers appropriate to develop and administer the | ||
| acute psychiatric bed registry. | ||
| (h) The commission may accept gifts, grants, or donations | ||
| from any public or private source for the purpose of carrying out | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than January 1, 2022, the Health and | ||
| Human Services Commission shall establish the acute psychiatric bed | ||
| registry required by Section 531.0997, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
